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作者: mithriel 时间: 2006-9-12 22:17
标题: MSNBC评论文章：为Orlando Bloom辩护
原文：http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14787930/
MSNBC的这篇文章为Orlando Bloom的表演辩护，认为他是个非常不错的演员，虽然仍不足但不应受到低估。
我认为这是评价开花演技的一篇相对客观公正的文章。

（感谢gloriagh提供中文翻译，见2楼）

In defense of Orlando Bloom

COMMENTARY
By Sarah D. Bunting
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 3:46 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2006

Orlando Bloom is not a bad actor.  He isn’t Olivier, but he isn’t Shatner, either.  Why, then, does everyone assume he’s a bad actor?
For starters, he’s pretty.  Not “handsome,” mind you: pretty.  The bulk of Bloom’s fame derives from his role as Legolas in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and while he acquitted himself well with a bow and arrow in those films, he also had very long flaxen hair, the sort that usually belongs to mermaids and Disney heroines.  The Legolas part turned Bloom not just into a household name, but also into a tween-girl pin-up in the style of Joey McIntyre of New Kids On The Block, a cute and romantic idea of a boy, but without any of the threatening, hairy adult sexuality.
Furthermore, Bloom played … an elf.  There’s nothing wrong with prettiness per se, or with playing elves, but those factors do make it more difficult to take him seriously in human, grown-up roles.

The roles themselves also present a problem, because Bloom has almost exclusively acted in gigantic epics and/or period pieces, which require a number of tools that Bloom doesn’t have in his arsenal (starting, sad to say, with the ability to grow a convincing mustache).  In movies about Crusaders or ancient heroes, audiences expect a certain physical heft, and while Bloom is not spindly, he’s not imposing enough for these genres, either.  You believe Russell Crowe is a gladiator because he’s built like a fire hydrant; you believe Brad Pitt is Achilles because he’s oiled up and looks like an advertisement for Pilates.  You don’t believe Bloom as a legendary warrior in “Kingdom of Heaven,” though, because his costume looks like it’s about to swallow him — and, in their scenes together, so does Liam Neeson.

Subtle acting in bombastic period flicks
Audiences expect actors in large-scale costume flicks to get in there and ham it up, too, and Bloom doesn’t do that; he does things more subtly, and as a result, he often barely registers.  It’s not really fair to blame Bloom for his performance in “Troy” — the writing he has to work with is weak, and on top of that, he’s playing Paris, one of the more ineffectual characters in the literary tradition.  But Bloom often looks overmatched and intimidated onscreen.  Eric Bana, who’s playing Hector, is far more compelling, and Bana isn’t even very good; he’s doing a lot of bellowing, though, and that makes the difference.  Edward Norton acts rings around Bloom in “Kingdom of Heaven”…from behind an immobile painted mask.  And it probably goes without saying that Johnny Depp makes a meal of Bloom in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.
Of course, when Captain Jack Sparrow is onscreen, nobody else is going to make much of an impression, so, again, it’s unfair to say that Bloom is a bad actor just because he’s getting upstaged by a flamboyant Keith Richards impression (Geoffrey Rush got upstaged by it too, and he’s no acting slouch).  But it seems to happen to Bloom a lot — everyone around him is merrily chewing the scenery while Bloom just stands there, looking gassy — and if he’s going to appear in larger-than-life films, he needs to learn to kick it up a notch.  “Ned Kelly” is a case in point; when Heath Ledger is rampaging around the set, growling in that angry bass of his and wearing a ridiculously huge fake beard that may have eaten Pittsburgh, and a bucket as a helmet, subtle variations in eyebrow angle just won’t get the job done.
But the eyebrow does score the occasional point.  If you watch the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” carefully, you’ll see a handful of hilarious reaction shots from Bloom.  He’s a good straight man for Depp, his swordplay is believable, and in his scenes with Keira Knightley, he’s puppyish — but that’s what the role calls for, and he does it well.  You wouldn’t believe him as James Bond, but when he’s cast properly, he gets the job done.

More than a pretty boy
Bloom is not a talentless pretty-boy by any means.  He just needs to fine-tune his approach to projects so that he doesn’t seem like quite such a non-entity.  He might start with a moratorium on period films for a couple of years: no swords, no sandals, no ancient or imaginary lands.  “Elizabethtown” would have been a great first step in that direction, if the movie hadn’t been obnoxious (it was) and if Kirsten Dunst’s spazzy turn as Claire had not overwhelmed Bloom by comparison (it did), so he might also consider taking roles that actually call for him to act — not just to re-act, or to wait quietly in the background while his co-stars Brando it up in the spotlight.
Comedy seems like a promising choice for Bloom, or a small part in a Wes Anderson film — he should do something different.  Get in a food fight.  Play a junkie or a criminal.  Cut his hair short.  Do an American accent.  He shouldn’t do these things to prove he can, the way actresses love to “ugly up” because it betters their chances for an Oscar.  He should do these things because he already can; it’s just that nobody can tell, because all the hobbits and bronze shields and galloping horses and subtitled Saracen dialogue (and crappy English dialogue) are drowning him out.  He can do the job, but it would be easier for him to do it — and for us to appreciate him for it — if he didn’t have to wear seventy pounds of plate mail to work every day, or utter grand historical pronouncements that would sound forced and stagy no matter whose mouth they came out of.
Bloom needs to focus on the writing, to look for dialogue that he can deliver convincingly.  If he can do that, and if he can avoid roles that call for luxuriant facial hair, the kid might just have a future in this business.  But if he doesn’t make some changes in the way he picks parts…well, there are only so many elf roles to go around.

作者: gloriagh 时间: 2006-10-6 17:03
第一次修改后的翻译:

Orlando Bloom是个不错的演员。他不是Olivier但他也不是Shatner。那么，为什么每个人都认为他演技拙劣呢？

作为一个事业刚刚起步的演员，他外貌俊美。注意，不是英挺，而是俊美。Bloom大多数的名气来自于他在《指环王》三部曲中的角色Legolas。在这一系列影片中，当他用弓和箭很好地表现出自己时，他还拥有了淡金色的长发，就是那种美人鱼和Disney童话中女主人公有的长发。Legolas这个角色不仅让Bloom成为家喻户晓的名字而且让他成为少女追捧的对象，诸如New Kids 里的Joey McIntyre这样的类型。就整体而言，他是那种可爱浪漫的男孩类型，没有任何威胁性，他不是那种浑身多毛充满性欲的大汉形象。
何况，Bloom扮演的是个……精灵。让一个精灵美丽根本就没什么错，或者说把一个精灵演得很美也没有什么错。但那些事实确实让人们很难从他那些富有人性的成长起来的角色中去认真看待他。
而他扮演的角色本身也是个问题。因为Bloom已经出演的都是伟大的史诗巨篇，和（或者）特定历史时期为背景的影片，这些影片中需要大量的道具。而这些道具是Bloom生活中没有的（很可惜，他得从有长令人信服的小胡子的能力开始）。在那些关于十字军或者是古代英雄的电影中，观众们希望看到一个肌肉发达身高体壮的人物，而尽管Bloom也不是纤弱的，对这些类型的电影来说他还不够另人印象深刻。你会认为Russell Crowe是一个角斗士因为他有消防栓一样的体魄；你会相信Brad Pitt是Achilles因为他的肌肉油光闪亮看上去像一则普拉提健身法的广告。然而，在《天国王朝》中你无法相信Bloom是一个传奇般的骑士，因为他的服装看起来像要吞噬他。同样的在那些镜头里，Liam Neeson看上去也是一样。

Subtle acting in bombastic period flicks
在虚夸无度中的微妙动作

观众们希望穿着大场面戏服演员能够进入这些大场面并动作夸张地进行演绎，而Bloom不这么做。他做得更微妙。其结果是他经常很少受到注意。指责Bloom在《特洛伊》中的表演是不公正的。他要表演的剧本是薄弱的，而最主要的就是他在扮演Paris，这是个文学传统中非常无能懦弱的角色之一。Bloom在镜头里经常看上去是被击败的胆怯的。Hector 的扮演者Eric Bana就显得更扣人心弦，而Eric Bana其实并不怎样出色，他只是大声地吼叫，尽管这形成了他和Bloom之间的差别。《天国王朝》里的Edward Norton在他僵硬不动的面具后面成了捆绑Bloom的链条。更不用说Johnny Depp在《加勒比海盗》中完全吞噬了Bloom的表演。

当然，当Jack Sparrow船长出现在镜头上时，没有其他人再会引起别人的注意了。所以，再一次，如果因为被一个卖弄的Keith Richards的形象抢了风头而说Bloom是个糟糕的演员是不公平的（就像Geoffrey Rush也不是表演得很差，但他还是被抢了风头）。但是对Bloom而言，他身上却因之发生了很多事。在他身边的每个人都在唧唧喳喳地讨论着那些镜头而Bloom就站在那里，看上去很气闷。如果当他去出演那些更引人注意更活跃的电影时，他需要学会再提高个档次。《凯利党》就是这样的一个典型例子。当Heath Ledger戴着他滑稽的巨大假胡子（那胡子可能已经吃掉了匹兹堡）和当头盔用的木桶在电影中横冲直撞，用他愤怒的低音怒吼时，眼角眉梢上的些微表情变化是无法完成这项任务的。

但是那眉却意外地正中重点。如果你仔细地看《加勒比海盗》的第一集，你会从Bloom那边收到许多滑稽有趣的反应。相对于Johnny Depp而言，他是个正直的好人。他的剑术一流。还有他和Keira Knightley在一起的镜头里，他孩子般的单纯，正是这个角色要求表现的，他做得很好。你也许无法接受他去扮演James Bond，但当他正确地选好角色时，他会做得很好。

More than a pretty boy
不仅是个漂亮男孩

Bloom不是任何意义上毫无才能的俊俏男生。他只是需要调整一下他实现目标的方式，这样他才不会看上去像个一无所成的人。他也许该暂停几年历史题材电影的拍摄。没有剑，没有凉鞋（应该是古代希腊那种），也不是在古代或想象中地方。如果《Elizabeth镇》不是那么令人作呕（可它确实令人作呕），如果对比之下，时髦漂亮的Kirsten Dunst可以表现得好象Claire并没有在挤压Bloom（然而事实如此），那么这部电影也许已经成为Bloom向这个方向迈出的一大步。如果是这样，Bloom或许也会考虑去接手一些真正适合他演的角色，而不是在跟着角色去做出反应，或者只是静静等在幕后，而与他合作的演员们在聚光灯下尽情表演。

喜剧似乎是个不错的选择，或者是Wes Anderson电影中的一个小角色。Bloom应该做点其他的尝试。结实地大吃一顿。扮演一个瘾君子或者犯罪份子。把头发剪短。用美国腔说话。他不该做这些来证明他可以做到。“丑化”自己这种女演员喜欢的方法是为了给自己制造更好的得到Oscar奖的机会。他做这些应该是出于他已经可以做到了，是这个原因，只是没人能指出来。因为所有那些荷比人，那些青铜的盾牌，飞驰的骏马，还有那些用字幕写出来的Saracen对白（包括蹩脚的英文对话），全都把他淹没了。他可以做到。但如果他不需要整天穿了77磅重的盔甲来工作，或者不用吐出那些宏伟的史诗般的对话（那些对话无论从谁的嘴里说出来听上去都是别扭和做作的），那么他做来就会更轻松点，同时要让我们因之来欣赏也就会变得更容易点。

Bloom应该注重剧本，去寻找他能信心满满地说出来的对话。如果他能做到这一点，如果他能避开那些要求有做作的胡子的角色，那么也许这孩子在演艺界还有发展前途。但是如果他在为自己选择角色的方式上不做任何改变的话，那么，只会出现许多精灵到处晃荡而已。

桃子:鞠躬.我的翻译不是很好,可能会有一定差错,所以请大家多多指教了.

[ 本帖最后由 gloriagh 于 2006-10-7 13:16 编辑 ]

作者: Szeki 时间: 2006-10-6 17:56
給小M和gloriagh拍拍手~謝謝你們的文章和翻譯。em01
自從演精靈一角成名以後，評論專門批評他的外表，甚至連電影也沒看就批評他的作品了。現在終於有稍為客觀的批論家為開花說話，看著幾乎感動到想哭了，終於有評論注意到開花的演出了。

作者: mithriel 时间: 2006-10-7 18:37
噢，谢谢桃子的翻译～

——观众们希望穿着大场面戏服演员能够进入这些大场面并动作夸张地进行演绎，而Bloom不这么做。他做得更微妙。

我觉得这是现在年轻演员的通病，如果要获奖或者“证明自己”，必需要选择疯狂的、非正常的、让你大喊大叫叫到观众注意到你的角色，看看近几年奥斯卡提名片的片断就知道……开花不喜欢这样，他也不适合这样，他的表演更加润物无声，只是如此一来美国人觉得他太不酷了，他们吃的就是Brad Pitt那一套。但Orli不是BP，他的确需要找到最适合他的角色，就好像一块璞玉，需要找到最适合磨制的方式以散发他的光芒，如果有一天他能像Johnny Depp一样灵巧地选择自己的戏，后者并非那种演技好到什么不得了的程序（如果和Edward Norton这样的演技派比起来），但是他的选角和表现方式确很有一套，让人觉得别致难忘……

我唯一担心的是他作为Orlando Bloom本人而遭受的压力，我赞同Mursili姐以前说的一句话：如果他不是叫Orlando这个名字，他能获得更多认同……Orli在演艺道路上，想要真正地成功，的确要付出比成名更多的努力，任重道远啊……

作者: RubyMoss 时间: 2006-10-7 20:03

原帖由 gloriagh 于 2006-10-6 17:03 发表

但是那眉却意外地正中重点。如果你仔细地看《加勒比海盗》的第一集，你会从Bloom那边收到许多滑稽有趣的反应。相对于Johnny Depp而言，他是个正直的好人。他的剑术一流。还有他和Keira Knightley在一起的镜头里，他孩子般的单纯，正是这个角色要求表现的，他做得很好。你也许无法接受他去扮演James Bond，但当他正确地选好角色时，他会做得很好。

真是太感谢,桃子的翻译了, 一定花了很多心思和时间.

不过, 我完全同意, 以上的这段话, 以我LOTR看过N边, POTC2看过3遍, 以及Etown看过三遍的经验来说, 其实开花的表演是很细腻的, 他的眼睛真的会说话.

但是, 也不能全怪别人忽略了这点, 毕竟像LOTR以及POTC, KOH 这种大片, 观众大多的注意力都放在的故事情节上, 很少有人像我这样两眼差不多所有时候都盯着开花看.

所以, 问题有回到的剧本以及导演上来. 这两个因素对于像开花这种还被别人看作偶像派演员来说是不太可能的, 不过如果开花有能力的花, 还是应该多拍点与自己有共鸣的作品. 最好,能圆他的舞台梦, 早日登上莎士比亚的舞台, become Hamlet!

作者: 月月 时间: 2006-10-9 21:10
非常非常感谢gloriagh的翻译，鞠躬。

说实话，偶也一直为开花到底适合哪类角色而苦恼，从以往的影片来看，他选择的人物一般都安静，细腻，感情内敛不张扬，即使是巴里安这样叱咤一时的风云人物，也不是传统的甲亢猛男，也许这真与开花本性中的敦厚沉静有关（常觉得小o的性格很矛盾呢~）。个人不希望小o为了刻意突破而去接演比较神经质的角色，好的银幕形象常常是水到渠成的无心之得，勉强为之未必有好的效果。

小m说得对，开花目前还在寻找适合自己的表演风格，偶们只能等待。

感谢本文作者给予小o的评价和建议！

作者: sirius沙 时间: 2006-10-17 13:06
这篇文章才算是中肯的评价，为什么媒体一看到演员长得帅，就说他是花瓶，明显是一种
偏见，角色的限制不能说是Orlando的演技不行！！

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